Two psychoanalytic hypotheses -- Unconscious guilt -- Unconscious pathogenic beliefs -- Patient's plans, purposes, and goals -- Patient's unconscious work -- Dreams and their various purposes -- Introduction to the research problem -- Our research approach -- Mrs. C -- Introduction to studies about the regulation of unconscious mental life -- Emergence of warded-off contents -- Expressing warded-off contents in behavior -- Acquisition of insight -- Introduction to empirical studies of the plan concept -- Reliability of the diagnosis of the patient's unconscious plan -- Testing pathogenic beliefs -- Testing pathogenic beliefs versus seeking transference gratifications -- Immediate effects of psychoanalytic interventions -- Immediate effect of the analyst's termination interventions on the patient's resistance to termination -- Broad look at the theory -- Research: a broad view